{"id":128856,"date":"2024-11-18T09:54:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T14:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/records\/steven-osborne-london-philharmonic-orchestra-dir-edward-gardner-tippett-concerto-piano-symphonie-no-2-hyperion\/"},"modified":"2024-11-18T09:56:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T14:56:34","slug":"steven-osborne-london-philharmonic-orchestra-dir-edward-gardner-tippett-concerto-piano-symphonie-no-2-hyperion","status":"publish","type":"records","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/records\/steven-osborne-london-philharmonic-orchestra-dir-edward-gardner-tippett-concerto-piano-symphonie-no-2-hyperion\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Osborne\/London Philharmonic Orchestra, dir.: Edward Gardner – Tippett : Concerto pour piano; Symphonie no 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Michael Tippett’s Piano Concerto<\/em> is one of the great titles of its kind in the 20th-century. We don’t know enough about it, but this dazzling recording by the London Philharmonic Orchestra with the indefatigable Steven Osborne as soloist should convince you to hear it out more often. The piano score is absolutely crazy: it almost never stops! Julius Katchen, no stranger to virtuosic piano, described it as \u2018unplayable\u2019 before walking out on it just before its premiere in 1956. The soloist (here Osborne, spectacular and clearly up to the task) is called upon from the first to the last minute by the nervous, virtuoso writing. That said, the composer intended very few grand gestures. Instead, there is an incessant swarming of notes that often reveal themselves in scintillating cascades. Osborne succeeds in turning this into a fascinating, often abrupt promenade that never seems arduous or forced. Quite exceptional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The orchestral writing is of the same ilk, giving the work as a whole a pointillist feel and a vibrant luminosity. The London Phil is superb, under the surgical direction of Edward Gardner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n